Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text

The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of <i>Cursor Mundi</i> and the <i>Northern Homilies</i>, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word orders with s...

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Main Author: Robert Truswell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/2/59